The Asbury Park High School musical, “Once on this Island,” has been nominated for four Basie Awards. The cast and crew received nods for outstanding lighting design in a musical, outstanding student/adult orchestra, outstanding chorus in a musical, and outstanding direction in a musical. The nominations were announced on May 8. The “Once on this […]

The Asbury Park High School theatre department is gearing up for its spring musical, “Once on this Island.” The play tells the story of a group of Caribbean islanders who are in the midst of a violent tropical storm. “It’s about a little girl who survives a hurricane and believes her life is destined for […]

A local church leader is donating $10,000-worth of new speaker equipment to the high school in exchange for temporary use of the auditorium on Sundays. Lyddale Akins, pastor of the Triumphant Life Church on Asbury Avenue, attended the Jan. 22 board of education [BOE] meeting to talk about the donation and his organization’s use of […]

Two Asbury Park teachers have been selected as the VFW’s Monmouth County Teachers of the year. Both men — Gary Kilmer and Rev. Kevin Williams — were recognized at last night’s board of education meeting. Representatives of Veterans for Foreign Wars [VFW] Post 1333 in Asbury Park attended the meeting to present Kilmer and Williams […]

Now that the high school students involved in “Charlotte’s Web” have taken their final bow, theater fans can enjoy an online video documenting the theater department’s months of preparation. The video, embedded below and entitled “Spinning ‘Charlotte’s Web,’” shows set construction, rehearsals and footage of the high school students taking their show on the road to […]